@Who?What?Where? wrote:Gerry McCann went to Portugal January 13 to meet Isabel Duarte about suing GA GM: I think, you know, we want to make it absolutely clear what's gone on in the past is, by and large, done and we very, very much want to focus on what can still be done....

So the message is "forget what I/we may have done in the past.... everyone, focus on what I/we may do in the future?"

How very tony blair, how very gordon brown, how very john major and alistair dowling does that sound?

How very convenient would that be, for all of them, if they could convince everyone to believe in that nonsense?

These people are prominent ( through the media) and, like it or not, they are a part of modern history. The whole point of having a history is that you learn from the mistakes or corruption that occurred, and try to make sure that it does not happen again.

Their action's, no matter how self serving ,vindictive or insane, would carry no consequences, for any of them in their scenario..

He is still taking a break from libel trial comment, but has posted about the Crimewatch programme : aninspectorcallsyou, Saturday 5.October 2013.

Saturday, 5 October 2013

Crimewatchery

No more commenting on the libel trial.Appearance & RealityOK, the Crimewatch programme will give people knowledgeable about the case the first opportunity to assess the calibre of the Scotland Yard squad's work and approach. The reconstruction they offer can be compared with the Portuguese investigation's establishment of events and any differences noted. And, more important, where the justification for any changes lies.My second favourite Portuguese policeman, Alipio Ribeirra, described one significant phase of the original inquiry (before the forensic results were known) as "pure investigation", by which he appeared to mean an intellectual analysis of the so-far established facts rather than a physical pursuit.You're nicked, my beautyIt's probably fair to say that the very real strengths of the British police, compared with their European counterparts, are not seen at their best when it comes to "pure investigation", except in certain critical specialist areas such as anti-terrorism. In the latter, of course, the police are actively assisted by the exceptionally highly trained and educated intelligence services.If we look at the contributions to the McCann case debate from retired Scotland Yard officers, many of them senior, to get an idea of their calibre, the impression they give is quite shockingly bad. Many of them have difficulty in putting their views forward coherently on paper and, like football players, have to be interviewed sympathetically to get their views out at all to the reader. Their analytical abilities, as revealed in their newspaper contributions, are, to put it mildly, deficient and there is a notable gap between their conclusions – such as, for example, that favourite the paedophile ring – and the logical or evidentiary steps leading to them.Perhaps only the dolts among them are willing to write for the tabloid press. That's a real possibility, of course, but fails to answer the question of how dolts manage to reach senior positions in Scotland Yard.One shouldn't overemphasize the importance of intellect in policing: the skills typical of a British detective – cunning, physical fitness, determination, a suspicious mind, powerful and first hand knowledge of the criminal milieu, leadership and the ability to co-operate with experts – suffice in 90% of cases. But "pure investigation"? It is noteworthy that John Stalker, the only Scotland Yard head of recent times with a reputation for intellectual and analytical rigour, at least by police standards, took a rather different view of the McCann case when he commented in the papers.

The foot-in-mouth performances of Mr Redwood at press conferences, the calamitous and amateurish recent spinning (despite an enormous PR force at the Yard), the blitz of justificatory statistics (38 "persons of interest", 38 000 "documents processed", 38 million "mugs of tea consumed") in their press releases—horribly suggestive of the hapless Roy Hodges listing his latest losing midfield's pass-completion rate – may conceal high-powered work behind the scenes.Perhaps. We'll get a slightly better idea on October 14 or whenever we finally steel ourselves to watch that voice of the nation BBC TV.

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Thank you Sallypelt, I can never find it either. While we're on the subject, I was looking online for a hilarious Blacksmith piece on Chinese Lanterns to show a friend but couldn't find it. I originally read it on here but can't find it here either. Does anyone know where it is?

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The Blacksmith Bureau had a single, polemical, purpose – to help Goncalo Amaral in every honest way it could against the activities of two ruthless con-artists too deep into their scam ever to get out: using the funds they'd conned from the public with their false claims they ambushed and tried to destroy him because they knew silence was tantamount to accepting the truth of what he wrote. Now it’s different. The Interrupted Investigation is about faith, not certainty, that if the truth is laid out for anyone to read it can help the cause of justice.There are no conspiracy theories here, no belief in political interference, no assertions, no claims of inside knowledge. When I make interpretations they are solidly grounded on those facts. Since 2010 neither supporters of the McCanns nor Kate McCann herself (“it’s just a rumour”) have been able to rebut, let alone refute, any of the examples I give of the McCanns’ constant lying and plotting in their own, very mysterious, interests.They all avoid the actual accusations I make, from the fact that the co-author of the Archiving Summary swore on oath that they had lied about events on May 3 2007, to the fact that Kate McCann did not turn down her lawyer’s suggestion of a possible plea bargain with the police in September 2007 (read Madeleine, page 243, paragraph 2 very carefully); that, for exactly the same reason (neutral witnesses present to correct the record on oath if necessary) Jane Tanner neither confirmed nor denied identifying Robert Murat as the abductor to Leicester police, through to the fact that they are lying now, after Kate McCann attempted too late to save herself by settling with Amaral before he could set in train the mechanisms that may expose her. Soon, God willing, one at least of them will have to answer for some of those lies in the witness box in Lisbon.I’ve made it clear that any time one of the Team McCann or the Tapas 7 members, or lawyers acting on their behalf, point out, with evidence, errors in my claims I will immediately withdraw them. They never ring. So one goes on laying out the facts in the possibly vain hope that not just critics or enemies of the couple but ordinary people, including journalists who were conned, will do what the supporters and shills can’t bring themselves to do: accept the truth.

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.~John F. Kennedy

I don't want to lower the tone but while I was writing the previous post the Truth Machine on my desk spat out an entry on a Mr "Pedro Silva". I need to reprogram the machine since "Pedro" doesn't exist and is therefore not eligible for fib-processing, having been invented by the Full Time McCann Supporter "BB" on her personal forum-fiefdom, to fill the long-standing vacancy for a single Portuguese who believed a word the McCanns said.

BB is no Shakespeare. To say that "Pedro"'s character is not fully developed would be an understatement: BB gave Pedro what she fondly thought was broken English to speak (which never improves, despite his long contact with the British) on her fiefdom and rounded out his personality by making him utter belches of scatological hostility to Amaral, calling everyone except GA "my friend" and then, having posted various inconsequential links to the case, disappearing before having to answer questions. Occasionally, though, he and his creator have had conversations, taking surrealism to new and giddy heights.

The one thing that in several years existence the Portuguese Mr Silva has never done is to write a single word in his native language. Anyway, he's a good comic turn and everyone knew he was an invention, as various comments on the Net about his non-existence demonstrated. But something strange, and for BB disturbing, occurred. A nonentity, apparently intent on entrapment, popped up on a little "pro" forum and posted a message asking, straight faced, "Pedro" to translate a news article for him! Urgently.

There was a deep, deep silence and no doubt, up in the Scottish mists, a sharp intake of breath.

Was this someone attempting to humiliate her? Was it a trap? In the strange half-world of the FTMS where a bewildering array of entities is created every day nobody can be trusted. Perhaps BB scratched her chin and consulted her memory… who knows… Honestbroker, that was the nonentity's name… Had she created him? She couldn't remember. Had she created him and he'd been taken over and was being used against her?

With this background it is no surprise that BB stalled, despite the urgency of the request. A whole day elapsed before the reply finally came: an extremely non-committal reply consisting of a risible Google Translate cut and paste piece of junk without, shall we say, learned commentary.

Honestbroker, how could you? How could you lay such a vicious trap for poor old BB by pretending you believed in "Pedro"?

Wow, what a blast from the past. I remember Pedro the Child Washer from 2007. He used to post on a blog and I remember anyone who posted anti McCann stuff on there immediately had their IP posted. It was clear they were all paid posters.

Pedro used to just repeat again and again that the abductor should bathe Maddie and keep her clean, give her soft towels etc. It was weird.

____________________"Cadaver dog? What is it? Lassie?" - Philomena McCann, This Morning, September 2007

The Inner Circle We now know that the “abductor” seen near apartment 5A around 9.15PM never existed. We know that the McCanns provided evidence of the abductor’s activities within the apartment. It was invented: there never was any intruder at that time – official. False evidence. Over the weekend of May 5/6 members of the group wrote it down as fact and added much more untruthful information. They signed it, printed it off in multiple copies and gave it to the British ambassador and the Portuguese police as the truth.And we also know that the “family shills” simultaneously gave equally false information to the media about how that non-existent abductor forced his way into the apartment, leaving more "physical evidence".False evidence. We know the broad outlines of how and when this “ fairy story” was developed into the detailed printed version by this inner circle of helpers. Of course the subsequent police statements by the group did notcontain these details. Why? Because the truth comes naturally but lies have to be remembered: when the police wouldn’t let them take their copy of the lies into the interviews with them – a bit like Michael Wright in the Lisbon libel trial the other day – they were lost. False evidence. The Middle CircleOver the years, though, the lie about the abductor has been elaborated away from the police interview rooms, chiefly by friendly journalists abusing their positions and by “spokesman” Clarence Mitchell at his increasingly bizarre press conferences where he “filled in the details” – of someone who’d never existed!That, of course, was false evidence too. What we don’t know is why the parents initiated it all. I, personally, have never gone down that road. It’s a matter for the police.The Outer Circle – UsThe false evidence, on the other hand, is not a matter for the police alone. It concerns us all because, in a widening circle of pure deceit, the parents first provided members of their family with the lies, then members of the Tapas group, then the Foreign Office via the embassy and then members of the UK media en masse in Praia da Luz – who then sold it on to us, the end-users. We were the most powerful enlisted accessories, much more important than the media itself, or the failures like forgotten Gordon Brown. Unlike them we, rich and poor, had the power to shower the pair with money, real money, buying them the freedom to force people into silence. The freedom to fly to 5 star hotels by private jet building up their image. And the freedom to hire the most expensive lawyers in the world. It was us, the public who believed them, who had the power to prevent extradition by the force of our opinion. Until recently, as the story began to crumble and the public started to ask the right questions, even though they dread the answers. That’s why the prime database for the case, the McCann Files, is now getting over 100, 000, yes, 100,000, official hits per day. Wait for the police?That’s why it would have been wrong for us to “wait for the police” to unravel the mystery. We waited and they didn’t do it! Neither in Portugal nor in the UK. There never was a “search” after July 2008. There never were any “private investigators” investigating anything. On the contrary the crooks and has-beens whom the McCanns recruited did just what they were paid to do for the £400 000 of our money they received.We had to find out for ourselves how we were conned, helped only by a single ex-policeman with a sense of honour, who for his efforts on behalf of their missing child, the parents tried to destroy. And on whom the UK media, and the small group of internet fanatics – "useful idiots" used the parents – poured insult after scarcely believable insult for six years.The public, both on juries and off, just might have a few accounts to settle with that media, a large number of whom will be traipsing into the dock during the coming year. There’s a lot to come out, isn’t there Keir?

One of these is doomed. Which one?

Of course most of the MSM journalists – those who don’t go to prison – will cover their tracks. Some of them, believe it or not, will try and write books about the affair. But not the worst, most cynical, liar of them all, the one who sold his soul, and sold out a child, for his own fame. The one who, unlike the Tapas 9 didn’t even have the defence of necessity and self-preservation.Your political career is dead before it starts, chum.

CorrectionNo, nobody's been on the phone.I'll reserve judgement on officer Redwood until we discover how many of his public pronouncements are true, rather than useful.One thing I seem to have been wrong about, as a number or people have pointed out, is the connection of Redwood to the Barry George squad. Checking Mr Redwood's surprisingly sparse and uninformative Scotland Yard CV I can't find any evidence of this. So I was careless as well as wrong. Apologies

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.~John F. Kennedy

What a fantastic piece of writing. It brought a lump to my throat, especially the piece about the "singe policeman with a sense of humour", I hope GA will go from strength to strength and hit highs in his life, he could never have imagined. Go, Goncarlo. The world is on your side!

@whmon wrote:Thank you Sallypelt, I can never find it either. While we're on the subject, I was looking online for a hilarious Blacksmith piece on Chinese Lanterns to show a friend but couldn't find it. I originally read it on here but can't find it here either. Does anyone know where it is?

I have only now read your post, whmon. I haven't looked for the piece you are looking for, but have you tried going through Blacksmith's earlier blogs? They are in chronological order, so why not start there?

This is what it has all been about, but we have been so busy looking at the abductor, and whether the curtains or closed.We have spent years asking a zillion questions and not looking at what is right in front of our eyes.We mentioned it of course spending money poping and such - but put this in context.Especially the image of them taken in Amsterdam where they looked so happy and one of the papers was forced to removed the image because it was damaging the reputation of the company.

Found it! I had posted it on MM myself. It does mentioned tanner and Payne but not sure it's in the context l thought...

Ahead of the crunch game against CPS Wanderers legend Joe Kinnear (seen in typical pose above), who claims to have taken over the stricken Liverpool Searchers, gives press conference. Kinnear appeared unsteady on his feet and unsure where he was. No change there then.

Background

Searchers were accused of match fixing in Portugal in 2007, details of which are still emerging and threaten to swamp the remnants of a once powerful club. Inquiries revealed envelopes full of cash delivered to ground and a rogue "fund" buying property for the owners and paying out vast sums to security men and crooks. Club blamed match referee and accused him of being a "criminal" before being booed out of Portugal.Legal inquiries and litigation have bled the club dry. Owners of holding company now known as Team McCan't, are in hiding and have not spoken publicly for months. Previous manager believed to be suffering from Weil's disease.

Who is Joe Kinnear?

Famously foul-mouthed football "manager" whose gaffes are all over the internet

Thinks IQ is where you buy your kitchen cupboards Called French midfielder Cabaye Joe Kekab in error-strewn BBC interview Says he's cleverer than anyone in the northeast Reeks of booze Verbal blunders attributed to surgeon's error in 2011 when brain bypassed instead of heart

What about the team, Joe?

What about the ******* team? Time for change. They talked a good ******* game and achieved **** all. Time to bring back proper football. I'm putting Dave Edgar in goal. Strong character, best keeper in the land. Look at those ****** hands! I've grilled Kebabs about where he wants to play but he's ****** sulking. Tanner's got to go. Mathew's no better, I said to him, was it an open goal or ****** not? He won't say f*** a**.

Because you lot have turned on them, that's why. Like me, they just can't be arsed.

What about the Portuguese FA?

F****** Amaral, you mean? He's bent.

Come on Joe, you don't really believe that do you? You fielded only nine players in the Portugal game, five of them were women and two of them were blind. Your team mascot disappeared and has never been seen since. And after the game three million quid appears in your accounts. That's not the ref's fault is it?

He was biased and probably taking backhanders. Listen that team was better than you think. They could do seventy yards in about three seconds.

Then why were they always in the bar?

I'm here to talk football

Last known appearance: mystery owners seen applauding latest defeat

What do you think went wrong?

I blame the scouting system. Six ****** years and it's produced nobody.

What about tonight's game? Lose that one and it's the drop, isn't it?

CPS Wanderers are all p*** and wind. We're fitter than them, they don't travel well and they're a ******* girlie team.

Your fans seem terrified of them, though. They're on twitter all day saying there's nothing to be worried about. And the supporters' forums seem to be hysterical.

When we start winning they'll come back.

Joe, the team has been bottom of the Fair Play league for five years. Does that matter?

No.

Clarence Mitchell is said to be ill.

Yep. They say it's a vile disease.

Will he ever come back?

[laughs] Not if I turn off his ******* drip he won't.

Latest: CPS Wanderers 3 Liverpool Searchers 0

It's half time and here's BBC Radio 5 first half summary:

"Wanderers played a patient game, retaining the ball and gradually building more and more dangerous positions. Searchers were dire. Seemed to be scared of the opposition and its slick passing. Tanner and Oldfield played in blinkers, Edgar was clumsiness and futility personified. Payne, the captain, who'd gone missing near the showers for thirty minutes before the kick-off, was unable to get his players to sing from the same team sheet.

Heads dropped. Only the blameless Webster performed. Payne was subjected to constant obscene chanting from a section of the crowd. Kinnear prowled the technical area muttering about "****** chickens with their ******* heads cut off." The few loyal supporters left wept and held purple placards up saying "WE WILL ALWAYS BELIEVE".

Soon the streets of Norbury will be filled with cheers and tears as Maddie is brought home. I had an idea, John, and wrote to the council suggesting a little road next to our estate be re-named Madeleine's Close! Do you see the double meaning? In these unhappy times sometimes it is best to laugh. Well we all do what we can, don't we? But the council (lib-dem of course) said no. And then I found out it is a dead end filled with overflowing and smelly wheelie bins, so perhaps they were Right. Keep up your work to get her home Mr Blacksmith.Justice for Maddie (from Norbury)No carnation for you! Karl Krause long ago exposed the way the British Empire uses "plants" like you to hide its real action, like the way it steals Goa, the most beautiful part of the world and give it away to the turbans. You will be exposed one day.J. Piri-Piri, address withheld. Since going through some traumatic episodes I have become a Quaker, learned Humility and moved closer to God. Madeleine is close to my heart. Now will you shut the fuck up?Rebekah B. Rollright Stones Bail Centre, Oxon.Hello Jon. You have to mask your knowledge of what really happened to little Madeleine for the lawyers by being very careful how you say things. You know that and I know that right? What about writing to me with your real feelings about how those filthy murderers of very sweet little girls actually did it? You know, no holds bard. Please enclose diagrams, pics etc. and sign it by Hand so I'll know its from you.Michael Write, "Agent Provocateur" Lingerie Shop, Skipton. You blacksmith stink. Like Amaral's fat arse. I read this in Lisbon paper from my homeland today and translate it for haters like you. "The hiatus of Maddie United think only them from Atlantic know truth when overhead valve engine sings. No! they not do! Port you Geese not fuels be leave in lovely sweet little Maddie. Haiti's will never whinny. "See? My countrymen have those like you well worked out. You blacksmith are small fart of Amaral big behind.Pedro Silva [for it is he] Tagus Cottage, Tayside, Scotland (on holiday here).I was just talking to hubby in the green room before putting down your latest hate-filled anti-Maddy missive. Had to douse myself in a flagon of Chanel to get rid of its odorous malice, spilling it all over my devilishly sheer tights. Oh well, 14 guests and a few bottles of Dong Perignon on the terrace will take away the nasty taste you have left. Then into the firm arms of my man. Repent.Judie Drooly, chatelaine, Leytonstone.Go on, tell us what really happened! All the filth and blood! Plain SAE enclosed. Be sure to sign it.Michaela Wrong, "Rosebud", Skipton, Yorks.One more joke about my piles from you Bullshit and I give you fair warning that armed members of the disability commission will be knocking on your door. Put your spliff down and smell the coffee. Thirteen rear-end operations have hardened me.Mary. Floor 28, Blasted Heath Estate, Glamis, Scotland.BB gun. Your arse is mine.Pedro Silva [for it is he] C/o Portuguese Cultural Centre, Glasgow.From Tony Parsons, the Mirror—) Nope, fuck off Parsons.Editor.

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Mr Blacksmith, while I accept your right to criticise I am very unhappy at your tone. The parents are suffering and you seem unable to react in a humane manner to the terrible blow they've had.M/S Mythbreaker, Tunbridge WellsSorry, I never reply to people who write to me in green ink. I'll let the Bureau's social affairs spokesman answer instead:Dr Heffer: Hello. According to Bureau statistics since May 2007, 36 000 children are known to have been eaten, had their limbs chopped off or burned alive, or killed in some other way across the globe. South Africa has untold thousands of HIV infected orphans limping along on an unviable long-term diet. They are largely ignored.Many thousands of couples in Europe have watched their children die in hospital, in road accidents, of genetic problems and by criminal attack. They are largely forgotten. Partly because they haven't run screaming to the press. Tragedy and family loss are a normal part of the human condition and, in the end, strike everybody. Some social scientists suggest a connection between obesity in advanced western societies and emotional obesity leading to outbreaks of comfort mourning.John, why are the media still telling lies? When will the dam break?Hoper, Kingston upon Thames.First of all, can I ask you a question? Would you rather the McCanns gained another £500 000 with a libel win to spend on grand hotels, crooked associates like Halligen and the pursuit of an ex-public servant?There is no direct evidence that the parents did anything to their child. So the media have no truth defence if they claim they did.The dam may never break. If it does and the McCanns are pursued by the media for some criminal act the sight will be at least as revolting as media behaviour over the last six years.Why does the media fawn over the couple?Anita O' Day, "Turn Me On", Sacramento, California.Why not? It's safe, raises the emotional temperature nicely and sells papers. No risk, little cost: a no brainer really. And most of the public love it.Sorry mate but you are just a wind-up hater. Don't get cancer will you mate? Now I'm off with the other lads for a game of football on Hackney Marshes and a few jars afterwards and a look at a dirty DVD. Get a life mate.Judy Drooly. Sent in error.Dear John. Is there any hope for Clarence Mitchell?Separated, Mrs X, Railway cuttings, Hendon Central.In the long run, no.What power do you think lies behind the couple? Surely it is not possible that they are indeed unsupported?WG Sebald, Dresden, Germany.The power of soap opera and our difficulties in confronting real life directly. I include myself.Mr "blacksmith" as you call yourself one day you will have to accept the social matrix as determined by the Frankfurt school and its analysis of power, instead of indulging. Cameron is the public face of the forces that you don't understand.Miguel Sousa Tavares, Santa Maria Álvares Pereira Street, Ramsbotttom, Lancashire, UKI'm sure you're right.Esta é a mensagem que eu quero traduzido google: Suas palavras não são minhas, Blacksmith seu porco. Todos Lisboa, ambos os lados do rio Ebro, concorda com me.Try um novo navegador com tradução automática.Pedro Silva [for it is he]I'm sure you're right.Are the press telling the truth yet?M/S Paula Rego, "Welcome", Sussex.The press never tell the truth. The mistake we made in 2007 was to think the all-cost defenders in the press believed what they were being paid to write. And drove ourselves nuts wondering what they could see that we couldn't. We shouldn't do that again.JB – I used to like what you wrote but now you sit on the fence. Join us.TB Ward-Nurse, Address withheld.No. I go by the Archiving Summary into the interrupted investigation. Every word of it.What is the best guide for someone new to the MM affair? I have a lot of time to read for the next seven years.Julian Assange, Knightsbridge, London.With apologies I recommend my own work, rather like a London Guardian contributor. The Cracked Mirror//http://madeleinemccannaffair.blogspot.co.uk/ won't win any prizes but it's the only thing I've written on the case that I don't and won't delete.Can Goncalo Amaral sue in the English courts for libel? A. Abulafia, Gerona, Spain.In the UK he must sue within twelve months of the first appearance of the libel.What did I do wrong at the tribunal? Brian L, Liverpool, England Even judges can't free themselves completely from the hold of soap opera. You abased yourself. That is why you have been passed over for LCJ. The curse of the McCanns on everyone who gets too close.

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.~John F. Kennedy

"I was just talking to hubby in the green room before putting down your latest hate-filled anti-Maddy missive. Had to douse myself in a flagon of Chanel to get rid of its odorous malice, spilling it all over my devilishly sheer tights. Oh well, 14 guests and a few bottles of Dong Perignon on the terrace will take away the nasty taste you have left. Then into the firm arms of my man. Repent.Judie Drooly, chatelaine, Leytonstone."

Just for the record: I do not know who this "chatelaine" is. One of my salons is green indeed, I exclusively wear Chanel perfume and I have a big terrace, BUT I do despise champagne and never wear sheer tights, let alone devilish ones. And where is this man with strong arms? Must be hiding in one of the upstairs apartments ...

Eddie and Keela alerted to items and places concerned with the McCanns - and importantly to no other items or places.

According to Eddie and Keela, the body of Madeleine McCann lay lifeless behind the sofa in Apartment 5a, clinging to the only thing from which she could derive any comfort; a soft toy called 'Cuddle cat'.

Kate's book 'madeleine', Page 219: "Did they really believe that a dog could smell the 'odour of death' three months later from a body that had been so swiftly removed?"

After forensic analysis of the 'Last Photo' there is little doubt now that the pool photo CANNOT POSSIBLY have been taken on the Thursday 3rd May, but most likely on the Sunday 29th April. So, where was Madeleine at lunchtime on Thursday?

John McCann:"This was terrible for them, Kate dressed Amelie in her sister's pyjamas and the baby said: "Maddy's jammies, where is Maddy?"Martin Roberts:"If Madeleine's pyjamas had not, in fact, been abducted then neither had Madeleine McCann."Dr Martin Roberts: A Nightwear Job

Death Toll in McCann Case

Gerry McCann called for an example to be made of 'trolls'. SKY reporter Martin Brunt doorstepped Brenda Leyland on 2 October 2014 after a 'Dossier' was handed in to Police by McCann supporters. She was then found dead in a Leicester hotel room the next day. Brenda paid the price.

Colin Shalke died suddenly in mysterious circumstances with a significant amount of morphine in his system. At the Inquest the coroner said there was no evidence as to how he had come to take morphine, and no needle mark was found.

Ex-Met DCI Andy Redwood had a "revelation moment" on BBC1's Crimewatch on 14th October 2013 when he announced that Operation Grange had eliminated the Tanner sighting - which opened up the 'window' of opportunity' from 3 mins to 45 mins, in accordance with their remit, to allow the staged abduction to happen.

Dr Gonçalo Amaral, retired PJ Coordinator: "The English can always present the conclusions to which they themselves arrived in 2007. Because they know, they have the evidence of what happened, they don't need to investigate anything. When MI5 opens their files, then we will know the truth."

Tracey Kandohla: "A McCann pal told The Sun Online: "Some of the savings have been siphoned off from the Find Maddie Fund into a fixed asset account, which financial experts have advised them to do. It can be used for purchases like buying a house or building equipment."

The McCanns, Operation Grange and the BBC are all working towards one goal - to make us keep looking at what happened (or didn't happen) on 3rd May, instead of looking at what happened days earlier. There is NO evidence of an abduction. Smithman is ALL they have got. Without that, they are sunk. No wonder Operation Grange clings on to Smithman...